“After years of discussing estimation/sizing of the effort needed to bring a user story from vague ideas to proven value – it seems that as a community we are not any closer to agreeing on even the basics. Not that it is a goal to agree, but it would be nice to at least send a roughly similar message to our dear clients and co-workers, who are constantly the “victims” of our ongoing process experiments. What bothers me the most about many of the traditional Agile ways of doing estimation is that both the process of doing estimates and the way they are used seem to be imposing and constraining the process rather than supporting it.”

He believes that the priority of the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, is to “keep Ukraine bubbling,” no matter the financial costs. Mr. Pomerantsev fears that the financial pressures and Western sanctions, instead of compelling Mr. Putin to change course, are likely to make Russia more closed and dictatorial.

A deserted airport customs lounge, luggage weighed by hand on an old fashioned scale and a cockpit with no digital assistance, are just some of the sites a photographer from Singapore has captured on camera after flying with the world’s only one-star airline.

And after having spent over €100K of our own money to hire contractors to help us develop LocomotiveCMS (this is not counting the thousands of hours spent on the project that weren’t billed to anyone), we are tired.

RT @NormEisen BREAKING: we FOIA’d Mnuchin travel docs & he makes Carson and the others look like pikers—he blew over $1 million of your money flying military aircraft, with no apparent justification. His predecessors flew commercial. twitter.com/crewcrew…

RT @CREWcrew The stories of Mnuchin, Price, Shulkin & Pruitt each tell of how regulations on the use of taxpayer money to pay for travel of government officials can prevent corruption, if properly implemented — and can fail to do so, if not. CREW's @jenahearn explains. citizensforethics.or…